Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ecumenical movement is an unscriptural dream of a papal protestantism and regimented Christianity. It strives for union at the cost of unity...
...society looks for its picture, understandably failed to keep up. In the 1930s they were looking backward at the ruin that war, depression and fascism had made of the 19th century's high confidence in rationality, progress and perfectibility. Some clung stubbornly to fragments of the exploded dream. More, resolving never again to be taken in by progress, settled for a program of anti-regression; economic stability and antifascism were timid goals. Since World War II, the intellectual climate has been changing. Social scientists, drawn back to the exciting and challenging present, have begun to update the future...
From such models, from men who respect and try to follow daydreams about their own lives, society may learn again to make social daydreams, those models called Utopias. The utopianism of the 19th century, bold and fruitful as much of it was, tended to confuse dream and reality. When some calamitous realities of the 20th century exploded that kind of utopianism, people were frightened away from any social dreaming. But they need it to clarify their values in the real world, to define their ends. Says Riesman: "The fervently repeated American cold-war formula that the end does not justify...
Along with such notable starters, ticket buyers will have a choice of a second group of possible hits: All Summer Long, by Robert (Tea and Sympathy) Anderson, with John Kerr; Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with Mendelssohn's music and Moira Shearer's dancing; Graham Greene's The Living Room; Lunatics and Lovers, a satire on sex plays, by Sidney (Dead End) Kingsley ; Portrait of a Lady, an adaptation of the Henry James novel, with Jennifer Jones; Truman Capote's musical, The House of Flowers, with Pearl Bailey; Sam & Bella Spewack...
...inflated prices. The trip to the city, through a countryside full of marauding soldiery, is insanely dangerous. Halfway, the potter sends his wife and son back home alone. In town the pottery sells merrily, but no sooner is the money in hand than the potter begins to dream of luxury...